Subject: my turn
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Date: 1990-10-01, 03:27
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

 * Audrey's not "praying" to Cooper, she's trying to send to him
   telepathically (tele-pathetically?).  I guess it doesn't work, huh.  

 * If the public and the critics do get fed up with TWIN PEAKS, as I'm
   beginning to suspect they shortly will, it won't be over not being
   told who killed Laura Palmer -- it will be out of revulsion at
   watching a taut, quirky thriller denegerate into schlocky mysticism.

 * If we locked Cooper into a closet and unleashed Philip Marlowe on
   this one, he'd rip aside the spiritual mumbo jumbo in two shakes and
   lean on the love angle: look for someone with the means, motive and
   opportunity.  Donna would be facing the music by Episode Three.
   Let's see how long Cooper takes.

 * Am I the only one who would like to call in Spenser and Hawk here?
   Jerk that sicko Jacoby's license and send in Susan Silverman to calm
   these kids down with glutinous psycho-babble while Spenser shakes
   down Ben Horne and Hawk blows away Hank, Leo, Bob and six or seven
   armed extras with that shiny cannon of his.  Cut to copter shot of
   Pugent Sound and tough-yet-sensitively philosophical Urich voice-over,
   then roll credits.

 * I know the cast has to get on with their lives between shooting
   seasons, but couldn't we have some semblance of continuity in a
   series whose action is still supposed to be taking place within days
   of the pilot?  If Fenn, MacLachlan, Ontkean, Beymer, Zabriskie,
   Ashbrook, Davis, Lipton et al. can look so convincingly back in
   character, why must we endure these radical appearance changes from
   Sheryl Lee (whose Maddy now looks like a trailer park slattern), Ray
   Wise (you *can't* tell me that "Daddy, your hair turned white" wasn't
   pasted into the script - I've watched enough soaps), Jack Nance
   (have a nice time in St Barts, Jack?), or Lara Flynn Boyle (something
   is wrong - hope she has friends).  I mean this was a second half drop
   in: people REMEMBER what the characters are supposed to look like.

 * The interminable opening scene with the clueless old geezer hovering
   over the felled and bleeding Cooper is atrocious, nearly unwatchable!  I
   haven't had so much fun with Lynch since ERASERHEAD, which I saw in 1978
   and clearly remember one-third of the audience walking out on about ten
   minutes in.  Go get em, tiger.  Of course ABC isn't in the business of
   supporting 'cult classic' charity cases with 10 shares, but you don't
   really want to be doing this show three years from now anyway.

 * Beware all second seasons.

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